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Chipaccrual:


If you had the power to remove something from the poker world, for the good of everyone involved, what would it be ?

We"ve selected a few options, so vote away, but feel free to add a post if there is something you"d love to see the back of.

KarmaDope:
Nothing up there personally, can think of arguments on both sides for all 5 of them.

The three main things I would get rid of in the poker world all relate to cash poker - shortstacking, bumhunting and hit & running. I would love to see a poker site where there was one buyin per level = 100bbs. There would be no arguments then - you either sit down with 100bbs or you dont sit down.

The arguments for getting rid of the other two have been raised over and over again so I wont repeat them all here, but both are cancers on the game and put people off playing.

deanp27:
Not quite covered by the options above but just a general observation about live poker at low-ish levels. I"d like other players to keep the speed of the game going. I"m not talking about tanking over difficult decisions or even "balancing" your decision time post-flop. Most of my gripe concerns the excessive amount of time people take with simple pre-flop decisions, these are usually in the following 2 categories (some of which is covered by the voting options):

- People who tank-fold 100% preflop, they probably think they are "balancing their folding range decision time", they aren"t, they are just making themselves look stupid and being generally annoying.
- People simply not paying attention to the action and having to be constantly reminded/nudged - sometimes borne by the fact that people wear headphones/watch ipads without considering how it affects their attention on the game.

I"d also like to add that I can"t stand players that abuse dealers/staff. I saw it at the last APAT I played at DTD and it leaves an unpleasant taste. Fortunately I busted the guy that was responsible and enjoyed doing so.

I voted for slowrolls but obviously understand that one person"s slowroll is another person"s difficult decision. However I generally don"t like any bad etiquette or angling at the table. One way of overcoming this would be to make everyone showdown at the river - most bad feeling in poker arises due to the showdown rules.

kinboshi:
Not sure any of those options would be a priority.  I"d like to see rude and abusive behaviour to dealers and other players punished and therefore removed from the game.

Other than that, can we remove the river card please?

Mikeyboy9361:
I hate dealer abuse, it is unbelievable that people do this, playing at the Manchester G ( which, by the way has had a massive overhaul of the card room and is now excellent!) a busted player started to verbally abuse the dealer at which point the dealer just burst out laughing, and the guy just had to slope off, great attitude from the dealer on this occasion, but instant bans, penalties should be handed out for dealer abuse.

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